axel

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Asada fell on her second triple axel, and dropped to fourth.

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  1. noun A jump in figure skating that is initiated from the outer forward edge of one skate, followed by one and one-half midair turns and a return to the outer backward edge of the other skate.

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  • It sort of feels like doing a triple axel (as if I could even stand up on ice skates, but we'll just say) — you let go enough so that you can lift off and spin, but not so much that you can't land it.
  • Army radio carts had a generator built into the rear axel, to keep the batteries charged. —  LeoA
  • Unlike single skaters where they have axel, salchow, toe, loop every year, we have to make up new elements every single year … we have to make up new lifts, new spins. —  Boston Mamas
  • Also, with the new fast private connections of up to 15Mbits / s or more, axel will become even more important, because the limit will probably still stay at 240kbytes / s with wget, as it will go well over 1500kbytes / sec with Axel!! —  freshmeat.net Releases
  • I tried the new axel (0.96) with it setup to do multiple downlaods and the results were again disappointing, I repeated my tests (see above) in exactly the same manner with the latest axel version and here are the results which are very interesting, —  freshmeat.net Releases
 

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  1. After Axel Paulsen (1856-1938), Norwegian figure skater.
 

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